[Garth Herrick]

Dear Ilaria,

This is a highly successful pair, with magical notes and passages. I have to look at and absorb these for a while to observe how you can say so much with such concise and assertive brushwork. We somehow know those are soft, rounded legs of a child, even though you employ the absolute minimum of planes and strokes in their depiction, and yet there is that contradictory solid chunky sculptural quality in those very brush strokes that prove your great talent. The compressed values make way for inventive interplay of colors, and the way they bleed beyond imagined edges is wonderful. I always look forward to your luminous creations; congratulations!

Garth